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I downloaded the Partition Wizard from Jumanji's link, installed, and followed instructions until the end.

After assigning drive letter (G:\), the PW shows that it is indeed assigned to drive G:\ BUT, I still can't see it in My Computer so I checked Disk Management and it still shows the same status/problem as it was from the beginning.

Is/are there any further necessary step/s after assigning Drive letter to the recovered disk?

When I try to close the PW, it says "You are about to quit the program and cancel all pending operations. The changes you have made will be lost."

After quick scan is completed, does it show the partitions found? Select the partition/partitions shown and double click on them. Does the Partition Explorer show the files? Please post the screenshots as in my thread above.

Edit: I missed your post#3. What is that HDD Reader? Ideally, I would have preferred recovery with the drive in its original location - the laptop.

Oh, I already did that twice. It shows 1 partition (NTFS), and about 8-10 boot file with 3.01Mb size..

When I D-click the NTFS file, it only shows the USER Folder, no WINDOWS folder. But still, I followed the instructions until the "change drive letter", and changed it to drive G:\. PW says it's successful but when I clicked Apply and waited for it to finish, windows reported the program stopped working and needs to close..

It takes about 3 hours or less for the 500GB HDD, but now I only have less than 2 hours til closing time.

I can't bring home the HDD reader because it's office-owned. one more thing is it's Friday here and office resumes Monday

I am currently trying Damaged Partition Recovery, but again, it's 1 hr, 46 mins since I ran it and it's still at 11% (

BTW sir, is there any way to show the results of my previous scan? I used PW, and was able to recover and assign drive letter to the recovered disk on my first scan but it closed that's why I did a second scan (another almost 3 hours of waiting). Can i just view my previous scan and start from there?

After quick scan is completed, does it show the partitions found? Select the partition/partitions shown and double click on them. Does the Partition Explorer show the files? Please post the screenshots as in my thread above.

Edit: I missed your post#3. What is that HDD Reader? Ideally, I would have preferred recovery with the drive in its original location - the laptop.

Anyway, let us see what PW shows.

I detached the HDD from laptop because it doesn't boot, and when I tried to format with installation CD, it won't create a new partition from the unallocated disk space, therefore, it won't proceed to formatting the drive.

So I detached the HDD, hooked it to the reader, plugged the reader in another laptop and view it as an external drive but it doesn't show in My Computer and as shown on the screen shot I posted on its status in the Disk Management

After quick scan is completed, does it show the partitions found? Select the partition/partitions shown and double click on them. Does the Partition Explorer show the files? Please post the screenshots as in my thread above.

Edit: I missed your post#3. What is that HDD Reader? Ideally, I would have preferred recovery with the drive in its original location - the laptop.

Anyway, let us see what PW shows.

I detached the HDD from laptop because it doesn't boot, and when I tried to format with installation CD, it won't create a new partition from the unallocated disk space, therefore, it won't proceed to formatting the drive.

So I detached the HDD, hooked it to the reader, plugged the reader in another laptop and view it as an external drive but it doesn't show in My Computer and as shown on the screen shot I posted on its status in the Disk Management

To fix the damage of the HDD in order to recover the files (if possible) and to be able to format it. Which are all impossible at the moment. I was trying to recover the files but there was a time that I gave up on it and just went to formatting the drive but was surprised when I can't even format the HDD as the unallocated disk space cannot be allocated. When I click NEW (new partition) in the Windows Installation GUI and set the size, it just comes back to Unallocated Disk Space, therefore, the FORMAT button is disabled

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